"How would you communicate to the world who you are in a single quote? What words would you choose?" were the questions Kate Winslet posed to 100 A-list celebrities for her upcoming book, The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism, which is due out on Tuesday, March 27. All proceeds will go to Winslet's non-profit Golden Hat Foundation, which aims to eliminate communication barriers for people with autism.

Whether through crashing parties, sending emails, or leaving pleading phone messages, the Oscar-winning actress convinced dozens of celebrities to take part in the project. She literally passed her hat on them -- a well-worn Trilby fedora -- with self-portrait instructions to "put the hat on your head and think about how much we take communication for granted."

Here, TheaterMania provides you with an exclusive first look at some of the images in Winslet's remarkable book, with shots from stage veterans Kim Cattrall, George Clooney, Daniel Craig, Jude Law, Julianne Moore, Cynthia Nixon, and Meryl Streep.

For more information about the Golden Hat Foundation, visit www.goldenhatfoundation.org.

The book was inspired by Winslet’s experience working on the 2009 documentary, A Mother’s Courage, about a young boy, Keli Dagmar, who has a severe form of non-verbal autism.

George Clooney in the trilby. If he couldn't speak but the hat enabled him to, he would say: 'I'm sorry about Batman And Robin' The name of the book, which was published last week, was taken from a poem by Keli.

‘In the poem, a magical golden hat enables him to speak when he wears it,’ Winslet, 36, explained.

Alongside the self-portraits are the stars’ responses to the question: ‘If you couldn’t speak but this hat enabled you to do so, what would you like to say?’

Actress Angelina Jolie, whose famous pout is the only part of her face visible beneath the trilby, says her first words would be: ‘Eat vegetables’.

Meanwhile, Clooney captions his picture ‘I’m sorry about Batman And Robin’ – a reference to his 1997 film that was voted the worst-ever by Empire magazine.

Actors Jude Law and Ben Stiller, actress Emily Blunt, Sir Richard Branson and U.S. Vogue editor Anna Wintour are among the other celebrities featured. The Golden Hat is Kate Winslet's debut book. It was inspired by her experience working on the 2009 documentary, A Mother's CourageActress Marion Cotillard, who is pictured make-up free in a simple black T-shirt, says her words would be: ‘Silence is an energy; silence tells something; silence is a part of the world.’

Keli’s mother Margret – who was advised to put her son in an institution but instead embarked on a mission to help him integrate with society – wrote to Winslet asking for help making a documentary about the family’s plight.

Kate agreed to narrate the film for free and the two women became firm friends, together founding the autism charity Golden Hat Foundation.

Winslet, who says she came up with the idea for The Golden Hat while she was brushing her teeth one night, has described the photographs as ‘an intimate glimpse into the real world of these people lending their voices to those without’.

She added: ‘I am hoping to raise awareness about the challenges facing children with autism.’

All proceeds from sales of the book will go to the Golden Hat Foundation.

I wonder what's in the blue/yellow tube on the counter top? I absolutely love this photo. I have a thing for fedoras.

Was this taken sometime around his elbow surgery? It looks like he has a black compression wrap on his right elbow; plus the blue and yellow bottle reminds me of a prescription bottle, and is that white stuff near the ziploc bags bandages? It kind of looks like that small white bandage thingy he wears around that elbow sometimes.

There is a myth that owls keep snakes away, even fake owls, but some people has debunked that myth as untrue. If George has so many snakes, there's a reason. Snakes come for food, so what does George have that is bringing in snakes? A bird feeder will have bird seed around it, mice eat the bird seeds, snakes eat the mice. A fish pond brings in toads and frogs, snakes eat these guys.

I remember going to sleep listening to owls and frogs at night. Very relazing